Biography

Dr. William M. Timpson is a professor in the School of Education at Colorado State University. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in American History from Harvard University, he went on to teach junior and senior high school in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio before completing a doctoral degree in educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since then he has directed faculty development efforts at three different research universities and written extensively on postsecondary instruction and innovation as well as how complex and compelling issues can best be taught and learned. Along with numerous articles, chapters and grants, he has written or co-authored fifteen books including several that address issues of diversity, sustainability, peace and reconciliation: 147 Tips for Using Experiential Learning (2013); Case studies of classrooms and communication: Integrating diversity, sustainability, peace and reconciliation (2011); 147 Tips for Teaching for Teaching Peace and Reconciliation (2009); Concepts and Choices for Teaching (2008); 147 Tips for Teaching Sustainability (2006); 147 Tips for Teaching Diversity (2005), Teaching Diversity (2003); Teaching and Learning Peace (2002); Teaching and Performing (2002); Stepping Up: College Learning and Community for a Sustainable Future (2001). In 2006 he served as a Fulbright Specialist in peace and reconciliation studies at the University of Ulster’s UNESCO Centre in Northern Ireland and again in 2011 at the University of Ngozi in Burundi, East Africa. In Spring 2014 he is serving as a Fulbright Teaching Award at Kyung Hee’s Graduate Institute of Peace Studies in South Korea.